Information from the commodity and prime supplier responses to the RFI was used to develop the business case submitted to Government in October 2009, which proposed delivery of the JBMS in two tranches. Funding for the first stage of JBMS has now been allocated in Budget 2010, and we are authorised to proceed with the RFP process.
The responses to the RFI in 2009 allowed us to assess the system’s requirements including high level architecture requirements, and to develop the content of the two tranches.
This has led us to conclude that:
a) prospective prime suppliers should include generic commodities in their proposals; and
b) we will issue this further RFI for commodities in the intelligence and risk domain of the JBMS only, and will not issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for commodities for the first tranche.
c) The intelligence and risk management application within the JBMS provides critical functionality to support risk assessment, intervention decisions and resource allocation.
This RFI includes business requirements for the following functions:
Entity Mining
Entity Matching and Merging
Pattern Analysis (based on data mining)
Risk Rating
Profiling and Alerts
Action Plans
The purpose of this RFI is to gain the best possible understanding of available solutions and their relative merits in terms of the requirements. This will inform the content of the closed RFP that will be issued to long listed prime suppliers, who will be responsible for the integration of intelligence and risk software and other JBMS components.
Details of intelligence and risk software solutions that meet our minimum criteria will be passed on to prospective prime suppliers to consider in developing their proposals. The understanding we have gained from responses to this RFI will assist our evaluation of intelligence and risk software solutions that prime suppliers include in their proposals.
Vendors of these products who responded to the 2009 RFI must respond to this second RFI too if they wish details of their products to be provided to prospective Prime suppliers for consideration.
This RFI has been issued concurrently with the RFI, “Joint Border Management System, Prime Contractor Services” (GETS reference 29793). A long list of prospective prime suppliers was identified as a result of the 2009 RFI. Due to the time that has elapsed since then, we are issuing the further prime supplier RFI to allow participation by any additional suppliers.
Closing Date: 21/06/10
